Novoazovsk Raion

Novoazovsk Raion
Новоазовський район
Raion
Flag of Novoazovsk Raion
Flag		Coat of arms of Novoazovsk Raion
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 47°06′42″N 38°04′57″E / 47.11167°N 38.08250°E / 47.11167; 38.08250Coordinates: 47°06′42″N 38°04′57″E / 47.11167°N 38.08250°E / 47.11167; 38.08250
Country  Ukraine
Region Donetsk Oblast
Established N/A
Admin. center Novoazovsk (de jure)
Vynohradne (de facto)[1][2]
Subdivisions
Government
 • Governor N/A
Area
 • Total 818.612 km2 (316.068 sq mi)
Population
 • Total 35,737
 • Density 44/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal index 876-XX
Area code 380
Website Novoazovskiy raion portal

The Novoazovsk Raion (Ukrainian: Новоазовський район, Novoazovs’kyi raion; Russian: Новоазовский район, Novoazovskiy raion) is one of the 18 administrative raions (a district) of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is located in the city of Novoazovsk, and its southern portion borders the Azov Sea. Population: 35,737 (2013 est.)[3]

Location and division

Novoazovsk Raion borders the city of Mariupol (Illich and Ordzhonikidze raions of Mariupol) to its west and has the international Russia-Ukraine border to its east. To its northwest, Novoazovsk Raion shares borders with Volodarske Raion. To its north Novoazovsk Raion borders Telmanove Raion.

The raion is divided into 15 municipal councils: one city municipality, one town municipality and 13 - rural councils.[4] Within Novoazovsk Raion there are one city, Novoazovsk, one urban-type settlement (Sedovo), 9 selsovets, and 59 small settlements. Also included within the raion are 14 industrial organizations, 4 construction and transport organizations, 9 kolhozy, 5 sovhozy, 3 fisheries cooperatives (rybkolhozy), 5 industrial organizations, 4 construction companies, 35 medical schools, 27 resort areas, and 26 libraries.

History

Before the defeat of the Don Republic by the Red Army in 1920, the territory of the Novoazovsk Raion was part of the Taganrog Okrug of the Don Republic. In April of the same year, the territory as the Taganrog Raion was ceded to the newly organaized Donetsk Governorate.

In the beginning of 1923, the Novo-Mykolayivka Raion was organized. On September 22, 1923, the administrative center of the Novo-Mykolayivka Raion, Novo-Mykolayivka, was renamed Budyonivka, and the Raion became Budyonivka Raion.In 1958, the Budyonivka Raion was again renamed, becoming the Novoazovsk Raion, and its administrative center was renamed Novoazovsk.

Within the Novoazovsk Raion, were born the: Arctic explorer Georgy Sedov, the general-polkovnik Hero of the Soviet Union I. Lyudnikov, poet N. Scherbina, and the sculptor N. Yasinenko.

On 9 December 2014, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament, changed the boundaries and total area of the Novoazovsk Raion to encompass 818.612 km2 (316.068 sq mi). The district's administration buildings and government was moved to the Vynohradne urban-type settlement following the events surrounding the War in Donbass.[1][2]

Demographics

According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census:[5]

Ethnicity
Ukrainians26,12367.2%
Russians11,49429.5%
Greeks3891.0%
Belarusians2080.5%
Germans1820.5%

Environment

Settlements

A wooden bridge leads to the entrance to the Khomytovs'ka steppe natural preserve.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Laws of Ukraine. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No. 32-VIII: Про зміни в адміністративно-територіальному устрої Донецької області, зміну і встановлення меж Волноваського, Новоазовського та Тельманівського районів Донецької області (On the changes in the administrative and territorial structure of Donetsk Oblast, changing and defining the boundaries of the Volnovakha, Novoazovsk and Telmanove Raions of Donetsk Oblast). Adopted on 11 December 2014. (Ukrainian)
  2. 1 2 "In the Donetsk Oblast three district centers removed from the territory seized by militants". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 8 December 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  4. ↑ Novoazovsk Raion at the Verkhovna Rada website
  5. ↑ "Національний склад та рідна мова населення Донецької області" [Ethnic and linguistic composition of Donetsk Oblast] (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 27 November 2012.
  6. ↑ See also: (Russian) geocaching.su - Khomytovs'ka steppe website
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